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Modern Life Is Probably Screwed by Peak Oil, But It's Not Too Late to Avoid Mass Starvation | | Alte

It's time to order some non-GMO seeds.

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Launch introduction - The COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE - WORLD HUNGER STRIKE

This December world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to come up with a global... more

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In the time it took me to type this 3 more people have died of hunger.

Climate change will result in the deaths of many of the world children over the coming... more

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GMO

Gmo crops.

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Millions face starvation in East African drought

NAIROBI — A sweeping drought across East Africa has left millions of people at risk... more

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That's what the artist community at Etsy is asking. Recently an etsy artist living in India discovered a child being starved so the family can earn money. The female child had no name. This is her story through the eyes of the artists that found her.

From http://thestoryofadia.blogspot.com/

We are a family of American artists living and working in Hyderabad, India. We have lately discovered the tragic tale of a child in grave peril. Though never given a name, we have decided to call her Adia, which means 'gift of God'.
When we met little Adia, she was lying in the dust at her mother's feet, shrivelled and badly starved. Her frail body was being used to entice passers-by to give coins to her plump and smiling mother.

The haunting image would not leave us, and over the next several days we returned to visit the family many times, bringing money, clothing and food for Adia and her four siblings.
We then discovered that as the youngest and weakest girl child in a very large family,her father had forbade her nourishment. She was kept alive by being fed sugar water and diluted milk in secret by the women of the family.

Despite being provided with what resources we could give, her condition has continued to worsen drastically. When her family removed her from the hospital in which we placed her, she was subjected to 'folk-healing' practices such as blood-letting, which have further injured her fragile state. Presently her doctor is unwilling to attepmt further treatment which her body may reject, but in five days she will be eligible to again be admitted to a hospital's care. At this time we will again strive to procure any proper medical treatement which is required.

In our constant attempts to rally support from local state and charity organisations we have consistently met with either indifference or incapacity. We feel that by bringing Adia's story to the international media it will command the attention of those who can help, and appeal to those who can open avenues for her continued recovery.

We also seek to raise awareness for the plight of other abused or neglected female children in India. Thousands of other infants and young girls are suffering as Adia is, unnoticed and unregarded.

We implore you to givIthis issue your urgent attention, to save not only the life of this one small soul, but to make new strides in improving the lot of imperiled female children worldwide.That's what the artist community at Etsy is asking. Recently an etsy artist living in... more

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Feed an Engineer

Giving a care package to a needy engineer has never been easier. Just $7 will buy a... more

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Could a Food Shortage Bring Down Civilization?

This article is rather long and basically a no brainer for many who post here. This... more

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Parents Sentenced to 30 yrs In 2 yr old Son's Starvation Death

The parents of a Rodgers Forge boy who was starved to death were each sentenced Friday... more

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Starving Zimbabweans face dramatic food aid cut

As the number of Zimbabweans dependent on food aid rises, and donations to fund the... more

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Mountains of Concrete: Dam Building in the Himalayas | International Rivers

There will always be abundant snow and glaciers on the highest mountains of the world,... more

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In Zimbabwe, survival lies in scavenging

Zimbabwean children picked up corn that had spilled from a truck on a recent Sunday... more

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The Other Green Berets - of Humanity

They move quickly and quietly in any weather by any means possible, often in places... more

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Extinction looms in Zimbabwe, a paradise lost to guns, greed and hunger.

At first it seemed a paradise. Baboons played on the dusty track ahead of us. Impala... more

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Really Want to Help People? Trash the Send-an-Animal Catalogs

I imagine many of you have received catalogs in the last month offering to send live animals to impoverished people in need, on your behalf, for what seem like bargain prices: $20 for a flock of geese or $120 for a goat or one of the "season's hottest gifts," a "farmer's flock" of one cow and two sheep for the low, low price of $150.

A bargain indeed, except not for the animals and, actually, not for the human recipients either. How this is not so great for the animals should be obvious. But read on to learn about what it means for the human recipients (and their environment and natural resources) too. If your goal is to sincerely help people, these animal-giving programs are not the way to achieve that goal.

Two years ago, Andrew Tyler of Animal Aid had a commentary titled "Don't Follow the Herd and Give a Cow for Christmas" published in The Independent. Here's a selection from that piece (which I recommend you read in full for a more complete understanding of the issue):

"The message might bring comfort to the target audience, but such schemes, sadly, are not a good thing. They serve only to increase not diminish poverty. Why? Because farming animals is an inefficient, expensive and environmentally destructive way of producing food. All farmed animals require proper nourishment, large quantities of water, shelter from extremes of weather and veterinary care. Such resources are in critically short supply in much of Africa. In fact, the wide variation in prices asked by the donor agencies testifies to this reality: arguments have broken out between Send A Cow on the one hand and Christian Aid and Oxfam on the other, as to the "quality" of the animal delivered and whether the many supplementary costs are covered in the asking price.

Sceptical readers might,at this point, accuse me of dressing up a concern about animal welfare as a concern for the world's poor. Let's be clear that there are major animal welfare issues involved in sending animals to, for instance, the Horn of Africa where, earlier this year, up to 80 per cent of cattle perished in a drought and many of the remainder were washed away in the floods that followed. But this is not about cows taking precedence over people.

The reality is that animal gift schemes are, in the words of the conservation charity World Land Trust (WLT), "environmentally unsound and economically disastrous". In a statement last week, WLT declared: "Now that the grave consequences of introducing large numbers of goats and other domestic animals into fragile, arid environments is well documented, WLT considers it grossly irresponsible ... to continue with the schemes ... as a means of raising quick money for charities over the Christmas season"."
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Photo: AP Photo/Eugene HoshikoI imagine many of you have received catalogs in the last month offering to send live... more